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Maria Lorena Cook

@MariaLorenaCook

Migrant rights advocate, dancer, Baja wines fan, jazz lover, anti-ageism activist, recovering academic.

 San Diego, CA
Joined July 2018
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@shawnjvandiver16 Nov 2025
A new @nytimes report shows that the administration plans to treat being from Afghanistan (and 18 other “travel ban” countries) as a “negative factor” when reviewing green card and immigration applications. An important #AfghanEvac 🧵
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Kate Morrissey@bgirledukate13 Apr 2023
I've been hearing about this for months. And it sounds like it's going to keep happening. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter

Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter

When a 33-year-old man from Afghanistan who had worked for the U.S. Army as a translator crossed onto U.S. soil from Tijuana, he thought he’d finally made it to a place where he would be safe.Inste...

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Non Toxic Communities@nontoxcom28 Mar 2023
The bill's sponsor said that the goal was to transition toward electric alternatives, and indicated that she was open to making changes to the bill. "I'm really open to talking about how we get from here to there." providencejournal.com/story/…

Rhode Island could ban gas-powered lawn equipment by 2028. Landscapers aren't happy.

Supporters say that gas-powered lawn care devices are harming workers and the environment and causing noise. But the industry say it's too soon.

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The Ithacan@IthacanOnline10 Feb 2023
According to oceanographers, ecologists and environmental policy experts, the life cycle of an artificial turf field has detrimental effects on human health and the environment. theithacan.org/sports/artifi…
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Global Labour Journal's first issue of 2023 is now available! You can access and download all papers here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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Kate Morrissey@bgirledukate23 Jan 2023
My latest on how it's going with #CBPOne, the app that now processes #Title42 exemptions at ports of entry. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
Asylum seekers in Tijuana are scrambling through mobile app error messages for few appointments...

Asylum seekers in Tijuana are scrambling through mobile app error messages for few appointments...

TIJUANA — On a recent morning, a woman from central Mexico held a phone up to her face outside of the Tijuana municipal building and took a picture. It was the first day that a U.S. government phone...

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Global Labour Journal's third and final issue of 2022 is now available, with articles on the pandemic's impact on labour, trade union strategies in Argentina, and workers' perspectives in Russia. Access the issue here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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sd-sequel@SD_SEQUEL29 Sep 2022
Noise Free America just gave the "Healthy Soundscape" award to CA legislators for passing a bill to phase out gas-powered lawn equipment. noisefree.org/california-sta…

California State Legislators: Kudos for Passing Bill to Phase Out Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment -...

For immediate release September 29, 2022 Contact: Ron Askeland [email protected] Ted Rueter [email protected] 877-664-7366 Chapel Hill: California state representative Marc Berman and for...

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@SCOTUSblog30 Jun 2022
The Supreme Court ALLOWS the Biden administration to terminate the controversial Trump-era asylum policy known as "remain in Mexico." Red states argued that Biden was obliged to keep the policy, but SCOTUS says in a 5-4 ruling that the administration can end it.
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Our latest is out! Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022): May 2022 (Special Issue) | Global Labour Journal mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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Kate Morrissey@bgirledukate29 Apr 2022
For the first time that UC San Diego Health doctors can remember, they've had patients die after falling from trying to cross the border barrier. Both trauma centers in San Diego are seeing a new trend in admits because of the wall's height increase sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
UCSD trauma doctors say migrant injuries and deaths rose sharply as the border wall grew taller

UCSD trauma doctors say migrant injuries and deaths rose sharply as the border wall grew taller

On a foggy night in mid-March, several family members from the Mexican state of Michoacán followed smugglers’ instructions to climb the first of two border barriers to reach U.S. soil near San...

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sd-sequel@SD_SEQUEL20 Apr 2022
Please join us at the San Diego Earth Fair in Balboa Park on April 24th at Booth #107 on the El Prado. #leafblowers #sdsequel
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It's time to #GetOffTheGas and #GetOnTheGrid @UCSanDiego. We'll be here every Wednesday morning this quarter until you commit to a clean transition.
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Kate Morrissey@bgirledukate17 Apr 2022
Right after I wrote about a Ukrainian family turned away at the border, I started hearing from loved ones of Ukrainians who ended up in immigration detention. Here is what they told me. sandiegouniontribune.com/new…

A Ukrainian woman was sent to a Louisiana detention center. Then everything changed at the border.

Kateryna, a 22-year-old Ukrainian woman, experienced first-hand how quickly the U.S. government can change the way it processes people who are fleeing for their lives when there is the political will...

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Please check out this wonderful podcast from @sandradibble about her 25+ years of reporting in and about Tijuana: sandiegouniontribune.com/bor…
Border City: A podcast about beauty, violence and belonging in Tijuana from a journalist who spent...

Border City: A podcast about beauty, violence and belonging in Tijuana from a journalist who spent...

Border City is a different kind of story about the U.S.-Mexico border, told by a reporter who has spent more than 25 years trying to understand the dynamics of Tijuana, Mexico, and its relationship...

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A good opportunity for current and recent undergrads: migrations.cornell.edu/learn…
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How can federal agencies increase worker power? Read about it today in @TheProspect by Deborah Greenfield and Lance Compa. If Congress Can’t Boost Workers’ Rights, the Administration Will Go It Alone prospect.org/labor/if-congre… #workersrights #bidenadministration
If Congress Can’t Boost Workers’ Rights, the Administration Will Go It Alone - The American Prospect

If Congress Can’t Boost Workers’ Rights, the Administration Will Go It Alone - The American Prospect

A new report lays out ways that federal agencies can increase worker power.

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Global Labour Journal's first issue of 2022 is now available! You can access and download all of the papers here: mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globall…
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Great close-up view of first day of restarted MPP hearings by ⁦@bgirledukate⁩ ⁦@sdut⁩: ‘Remain in Mexico’ hearings restart in San Diego with technological hurdles sandiegouniontribune.com/new…
‘Remain in Mexico’ hearings off to a bumpy restart in San Diego

‘Remain in Mexico’ hearings off to a bumpy restart in San Diego

Asylum seekers in the recently reinstated “Remain in Mexico” program at the San Diego-Tijuana border crossed north for court hearings for the first time on Tuesday.Their introduction to U.S. immigr...

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Great reporting by ⁦@bgirledukate⁩ in the ⁦@sdut⁩. #EndTitle42 Biden administration defends in court Trump border policy that expels asylum seekers sandiegouniontribune.com/new…

Biden administration defends in court Trump border policy that expels asylum seekers

The Biden administration in a court hearing this week defended a Trump-era border policy that has expelled hundreds of thousands of migrants since March 2020. The arguments capped off a year of mixed...

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